[BlueOnyx:09496] Re: unable to set numeric sub domain name

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Ralf Quint wrote:
> At 05:48 AM 1/31/2012, Michael Stauber wrote:
>> According to RFC-952 the first character of a host- or domain-name may not be
>> a number, dash or hyphen. It must be a letter.
>>
>> See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc952
>>
>> Hence BlueOnyx doesn't allow a naming convention where a host- or domain-name
>> starts with a number.
>>
>> However, in recent years domain name registries have allowed certain RFC
>> violating domain names (9gag.com anyone? ;-), so this RFC may have been
>> overtaken by events or bad practices somewhere upstream.
> 
> 3com.com exists per WhoIs since 1986 (though it redirects now to an 
> HP site, since they bought 3COM in 2010), so there can't be any 
> change in "recent" years on that...

Indeed.  There is always an exception for every rule.

Still, I tend to side with following the RFC wherever possible.

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